24 JANUARY 1936, page 7

Rudyard Kipling

M R. RUDYARD KIPLING'S death occurred too late for mention in last week's Spectator, and today it is inevitably overshadowed for the nation by a greater bereavement. But even......

A Spectator's Notebook

I T has fallen to The Spectator in the course of its history to record the deaths of five British sovereigns. A study of the verdicts passed in its columns on the two earliest......